Confluences
Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Published:30th Nov '07
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Confluences looks at the prospects for breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial studies. John Cullen Gruesser emphasizes the confluences among three major theories of the past twenty-five years: postcolonialism, Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Signifyin(g), and Paul Gilroy's black Atlantic. Gruesser then devotes a chapter to each theory, examining one literary text that illustrates the value of the theoretical model, a second text that extends the model in a significant way, and a third text that complicates the theory. His examples are drawn from the writings of Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, Walter Mosley, Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison, Harry Dean, Harriet Jacobs, and Alice Walker.
Profoundly historicizes our own contemporary, theoretical, and cultural moment. - American Literature ""Joins Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic in the first rank of books investigating African American literature's place in the postcolonial tradition."" - Craig Werner, author of A Change Is Gonna Come
ISBN: 9780820330266
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 267g
192 pages